African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 19th century

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• African Americans -- Civil rights -- History
• African Americans -- History -- 19th century

• The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, With Sketches of Several Distinguished Colored Persons; To Which Is Added a Brief Survey of the Condition And Prospects of Colored Americans (Boston: Robert F. Wallcut, 1855), by William Cooper Nell (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Politics of Judicial Interpretation: The Federal Courts, Department of Justice, and Civil Rights, 1866-1876 (with a new introduction; New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), by Robert J. Kaczorowski (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Free at Last: The U.S. Civil Rights Movement (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2008), by Michael Jay Friedman (PDF and illustrated HTML with commentary at america.gov)
• Justice for All: The Legacy of Thurgood Marshall (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2007), ed. by George Clack and Mildred Sola Neely (PDF and illustrated HTML with commentary at america.gov)
• Our Home Colony: A Treatise on the Past, Present and Future of the Negro Race in America (Steubenville, OH: Herald Printing Co., c1908), by Moses Fleetwood Walker (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, With Sketches of Several Distinguished Colored Persons; To Which Is Added a Brief Survey of the Condition And Prospects of Colored Americans (Boston: Robert F. Wallcut, 1855), by William Cooper Nell (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• To Advance Their Opportunities: Federal Policies Toward African American Workers From World War I to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (c2008), by Judson MacLaury (PDF files at Newfound Press)

• The Wife of His Youth, and Other Stories of the Color Line, by Charles W. Chesnutt (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Reason Why the Colored American is not in the World's Columbian Exposition: The Afro-American's Contribution to Columbian Literature (Chicago: Ida B. Wells, 1893), by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, contrib. by Frederick Douglass, I. Garland Penn, and F. I. Barnett (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation Since the War, by Frances Butler Leigh (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• My Life and Travels, by Levi Branham (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• A Voice from the South, By a Black Woman of the South (Xenia, Ohio: The Aldine Printing House, 1892), by Anna J. Cooper (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Plantation Life Before Emancipation, by Robert Q. Mallard (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Negro Plot: An Account of the Late Intended Insurrection Among a Portion of the Blacks of the City of Charleston, South Carolina (Boston: Joseph W. Ingraham, 1822), by James Hamilton (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Two Diaries from Middle St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February-May, 1865, by Susan R. Jervey and Charlotte St. J. Ravenel (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• A Voice from the South, By a Black Woman of the South (Xenia, Ohio: The Aldine Printing House, 1892), by Anna J. Cooper (HTML and TEI at UNC)